Juju Boy's sensual music video: Is it art?
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
He refers to it as mild material, which is also too deep for children to discern the sexual connotations that can only be decoded by the initiated. Not that it is rated, "For Adults Only", but Juju Boy thinks images conjured by his video girl sensually licking a banana, as well as the crowd at the orgy ripping apart one another's clothes, or himself suggestively touching a woman's thigh lying on a Roman bed, are just mild stuff compared to what our children are daily bombarded with in soapies, movies and some other material.
The video, which is also on YouTube, has already rotated more than 10 times on Botswana's only nationwide television channel, Botswana Television (Btv) since its release two months ago, but remember when it comes to sensual music video material, Btv's standards sometimes boggle the mind as they did when they played a heavily sensual music video by local poet, Berry Heart early this year.
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